Performing Arts, Music: 30 collections
| African Americans ~ Sheet Music ~ 1850-1920
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University |
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| African-American Music, Southern U.S. ~ Recordings ~ 1938-1943
"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 |
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| Berliner, Emile ~ Early Recording Industry ~ Multiformat ~ 1870-1956
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry |
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| Bernstein, Leonard ~ Multiformat ~ ca. 1920-1989
The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 |
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| Chautauqua Performers ~ Advertising Flyers ~ 1904-1940
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century |
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| Civil War Era ~ Band Music ~ Multiformat
Band Music from the Civil War Era |
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| Copland, Aaron ~ Multiformat ~ 1900-1990
The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990 |
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| Dance Manuals ~ Books ~ 1490-1920
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 |
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| Edison Companies ~ Film and Sound Recordings
Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies |
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| * | Federal Theatre Project ~ Multiformat ~ 1935-1939
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 |
| Film, Animated ~ 1900-1921
Origins of American Animation |
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| Fine, Irving ~ Multiformat ~ 1914-1962
The Irving Fine Collection: Ca. 1914-1962 |
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| Flutes ~ Dayton C. Miller ~ Multiformat
Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection |
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| Folk Culture, Florida ~ Multiformat ~ 1937-1942
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 |
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| Folk Fiddle Music, Southern Appalachian ~ Henry Reed ~ Multiformat ~ 1966-1967
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection |
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| Folk Music, California ~ Sidney Robertson Cowell ~ Multiformat ~ 1930s
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties. Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell |
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| Folk Music, Dust Bowl ~ Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin ~ Multiformat ~ 1940-1941
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 |
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| Folk Music, Southern U.S. ~ John Lomax and Ruby Lomax ~ Multiformat ~ 1939
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip |
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| Guthrie, Woody ~ Correspondence ~ 1940-1950
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 |
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| Hispanic Music, Rio Grande ~ Juan Bautista Rael ~ Multiformat ~ 1940s
Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection |
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| Hurston, Zora Neale ~ Plays ~ 1925-1944
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress |
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| Jazz ~ William P. Gottlieb ~ Photographs ~ 1938-1948
William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz |
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| Lincoln, Abraham, and Civil War ~ Sheet Music ~ Alfred Whital Stern ~ 1859-1909
"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana |
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| Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest ~ Multiformat
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest |
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| Omaha Indian Music ~ Multiformat
Omaha Indian Music |
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| Portraits of Creative Americans ~ Carl Van Vechten ~ Photographs ~ 1932-1964
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964 |
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| Sheet Music ~ 1820-1860 & 1870-1885
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 & 1870-1885 |
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| Sheet Music ~ 1850-1920
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 |
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| Song Sheets ~ ca. 1800-1880
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets |
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| Variety Stage ~ Multiformat ~ 1870-1920
The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 |
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